Charles Santoso is an illustrator and concept artist, who lives in Sydney, Australia. By day, he works for an animation studio, creating visual development images for feature films – by night, he illustrates picture books, novels and makes works for gallery shows. How do you think your experience as concept artist/art director at Animal Logic plays into your personal work? I have to create consistent work, make decis...
AJ Poyiadgi is an illustrator and filmmaker. He has worked for The Guardian, BBC, BAFTA and Ford. He produces a strip for Shots magazine and his latest project is Teabag Theories, a science-based micro-comic-in-a-teabag. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I’m a writer/director by day, but comics and illustration work is taking up more and more of my time. I always wanted to make comics and I ...
Daria Hlazatova, the root of her name means ‘eyes’ in Russian, lives in a town not very far from the Carpathians. She draws with pens and pencils and also creates hand-made collages. She hopes her work will give people interesting dreams at night… You work mostly in black and white, what are your favourite media, and what do you like about working in monochrome? What do you use when you do add touc...
Marion Balac lives and works in Paris, where she also self-publishes her own books. She enjoys travelling from her desk; drawing wild jungles and animals, building shelters and wandering through mysterious abandoned caves… Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I went to the Fine Arts School in Lyon but I was mostly into video-editing at that time. I was drawing but not really showing it to the t...
Award winning illustrator Pete Murgatroyd divides his time between Falmouth and London. His illustration, prints and comics are equally inspired by Heavy metal, epic science fiction comics/animation of yesteryear and a liberal dose if psychedelia, each densely packed image is a workout for the eyes. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I’m an illustrator and comic artist based in Cornwall, I like B-M...
Rupert Smissen is an illustrator living and working in London. Having graduated from Norwich University College of Art last year, he has since worked on a variety of projects with clients including Little White Lies, Popshot and D&AD. He has pencils, will travel, and often does. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? My name’s Rupert, I’m a 24 year old freelance illustrator with greying...
Maryanna Hoggatt is an illustrator who was born in the Philippines, raised in Arizona, and moved to Portland, Oregon in 2007. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I’m a Navy Brat that moved around a lot when I was a kid. The only common thread was my constant drawing. In elementary school I drew Disney and Looney Tunes characters and made up children’s books in spiral bound notebooks. In ...
Barnaby studied Art History at University before deciding to become an illustrator. He won The Financial Times Young Illustrator Award in 1998 and then moved to Cornwall to complete an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice in 2003. He now lives in London with his girlfriend Alice and their cat, Mosca. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I’m a London based illustrator currently finishing a Gra...
Issue 3 is finally here and it is a beast of beauty. We’re super excited to finally share these shots of our latest endeavour: The Beast Issue – Monsters, Machines & Unnatural Things! This issue features a special BONUS pull-out double sided poster with artwork by Taiwanese illustrator Inca Pan (above) and Italian illustrator Vania Barbato whose work also features on our back cover! We’re specta...
